UTW 54

Sophie Scholl of the White Rose resistance group, Germany

Art:  2005
Media: Ink, gouache
Framed, 38 inches H  x 28 W

Sophie Scholl was a Protestant German. She and her brother Hans, also guillotined by the Nazis, were members of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group at the University of Munich, where they clandestinely distributed flyers critical of the Nazi government. In German: die Weiße Rose.

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Her portrait was drawn from a photo of her taken at age 17 which appears in the book “At the Heart of the White Rose, Letters & Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl.”  Edited by Inge Jens; pub. by Harper & Row, N.Y., 1987.

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Scholl is also depicted in Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series drawing 10: Sophie Scholl makes a rare appearance from the other world to visit Boubacar Bah at his Corrections Corporation of America prison bedside, Newark, New Jersey, spring 2007. Visit the SWD gallery artworks. 
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A 2 min., 30 sec video, filmed at an exhibit at Seattle Central College, 2018, with Elke, who is a retired librarian born in Germany in 1935. She emigrated to America after the war.